Online, in person, or through the mail, please choose the option that works best for you. Feel free to contact us for help or to discuss ways to make the gift you'd like to make.

Once you've made a gift, please check to see if your or your spouse/partner's employer will match your gife doubling, tripling, or quadrupling your philanthropic impact. Often companies will match gifts within the last two or three years. Let them know this benefit is important to you.

To ensure your recognition for the 2008-09 year, please make sure your gift is made before June 30, 2009 using the following options:

• Make your gift online via our secure, online giving site using a credit card or EFT with a bank account. It's the most secure and quickest way to make your gift for education. Consider recurring gifts so you can make the gift you'd like to make. You can also fulfill your pledge or increase your commitment.
  
  
• Print a pledge form (.pdf format) and mail (postmarked on or before June 30, 2009) to:
  The Pioneer Fund
  Office of College and Alumni Relations
  Grinnell College
  Grinnell, IA 50112-1690
  
  
• Stock gifts: Call (866-850-1846) or e-mail Sandy Durbala (641-821-5600) durbala@grinnell.edu. Stock gifts must be fully transacted by midnight Central Standard Time December 31, 2008.

  

• Matching Gift Company/Subsidiary Listing will help you determine if you can double, triple, or quadruple your gift before June 30, 2009. See if your spouse/partner's employer will match your gift. Many employers will match philanthropic support to non-profit organizations. If you've made a gift to Grinnell within the last two or three years, check out our Matching Gift page to see if you or your spouse/partner's employer will match gifts up to three years past.
  
  
• Travel Gifts in Kind - you can make a gift of your personal travel expenses you incurred while travelling in service to Grinnell College. You must include original receipts. You will be sent a College receipt for the sum of your in kind travel expenses gift. Your gift counts as a Pioneer Fund gift and is included in your total giving for posting in the Honor Roll of Giving. Sometimes you will have made arrangements with a department to share or cover your transportation costs. If you have aprroved travel cost reimbursements, attach original receipts and use the Approved Travel Reimbursements form.
  
  

  If you need assistance determining the best gift option for you,
  please feel free to contact us.
  
  Office of College and Alumni Relations
  Grinnell College
  733 Broad Street
  Grinnell, IA 50112-1690
  866-850-1846, 641-269-1846
  641-269-4313 (Fax)